Improvement in bottle-stoppers



Nrrnn STATES PATENT ()rrron ARTHUR OHRISTIN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN BOTTLE-STOPPERS.

Specificat on forming part of Letters Patent No. 161,863, dated Ap1il13, 1875; application filed December 21, 1874.

gaseous fluids under pressure; and it consists in a tapered glass stopper of such length that it cannot turn in the bottle, in combination with a rubber, cork, or. other ring expanded into a recess in the neck of the bottle, the said stopper having a socket formed in each side of its upper or smaller end, to enable it to be grasped by a pair of tongs while the bottle is being filled.

Figure 1 is a vertical section of a mineralwater bottle fitted with my improved stop and collar. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the neck and stopper.

' In the drawing, A represents a bottle having an annular groove or recess molded in its neck to receive an annular collar, to, of indiarubber, cork, or other suitable material, which can be expanded into it. B is a tapered glass stopper, of such length that it cannot turn in the bottle, and which is to be inserted before the collar to. The top of the stopper has a pair of sockets, b, molded in its top, on opposite sides, or a hole may be molded entirely through,

to receive the lower ends of a pair of tongs to hold it up while the bottle is being filled, drawing the stopper into the collar when the bottle is full, after which the internal pressure forces the stopper farther into said collar, and thus prevents leakage. To open the bottle, it should be reversed, and the stopper pushed in- Wardly.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The tapered stopper B, provided with the sockets b, in combination with a bottle whose diameter is less than the length of said .stopper, and is provided with a collar, a, substantially as described.

ARTHUR OHRISTIN. Witnesses:

WM. H. Lorz, HERMAN A. KROESOHELL. 

